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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:16:58 -0400
From: Chuck Boyce <sg95m476 AT drexel DOT edu>
Subject: RE: cygwin vs. MKS Toolkit
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Thanks Suhaib,

That's *exactly* why I'm asking.  It's on sale for like $128. btw at
www.provantage.com until October (with $75. rebate).

Best!

Chuck


> MKS Toolkit is collection of bunch of GNU utilities, which are already
> part of Cygwin.  I am not sure why would you like to pay 200 buck for
> something GNU utils which are available free from several places on
> Internet, including source code from GNU itself.  I am also not sure how MKS
> charge for those utilities which were written by GNU, like sh, sed and ls
> etc etc.
>
> Suhaib
>
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Thanks Suhaib,
<p>That's *exactly* why I'm asking.&nbsp; It's on sale for like $128. btw
at www.provantage.com until October (with $75. rebate).
<p>Best!
<p>Chuck
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<pre>MKS Toolkit is collection of bunch of GNU utilities, which are already
part of Cygwin.&nbsp; I am not sure why would you like to pay 200 buck for
something GNU utils which are available free from several places on
Internet, including source code from GNU itself.&nbsp; I am also not sure how MKS
charge for those utilities which were written by GNU, like sh, sed and ls
etc etc.

Suhaib</pre>
</blockquote>

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